Rey Don PedroThis novel is set in the Spanish fourteenth century, in the historical context of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death. Pedro I of Castilla, called the Cruel by his adversaries and the Justiciero by his followers, is killed by his brother Enrique de Trastamara with the help of the mercenary Beltran Duguesclin. Once dead, Don Pedro remembers his life in detail, from the distant day he inherited the throne to the moment of his own death.